[gdal-dev] Documentation for VSIGlob()

[Chris Toney]

Ah yeah I see now. That makes sense. I was confused why that syntax at
first but you're right it does highlight the directory structure at least.

Chris

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 10:14 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I could pretend the splitting was done on purpose to better highligh the
> file hiearchy, but ... the truth is I believe I had some issues with one
> of the components involve in our documentation building
> (doxygen/breathe/sphinx, or perhaps just C++ that would confuse "*/"
> with an end-of-C-comment marker) to make it happy with "**/*.tif", so I
> ended up falling back to this trick of splitting the string, which is
> exactly equivalent to merging them together.  I guess there must be some
> way of fixing this, but couldn't find it at the time this was written
>
> Even
>
> Le 14/01/2026 à 18:07, Chris Toney via gdal-dev a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > In the documentation for VSIGlob at
> > https://gdal.org/en/stable/api/cpl.html, is some outer quote /
> > escaping needed in the last two examples? For example with
> >
> > VSIGlob("my_subdir" "/" "*.tif",NULL,...
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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